Regional Hotel Awards

Leading City Hotel in:

Jakarta

Surabaya*

Bandung

Medan*

Semarang

Yogyakarta*

HOW ARE THE WINNERS CHOSEN?

Winners are judged by 1) Peers - the Indonesian Travel and Tourism Awards Foundation's 27-member board of advisors of "exemplary travel individuals from various travel and tourism and non tourism backgrounds", and 2) Online voting open to the public. (To protect the integrity of the process, voters have to pre-register.)

A full list of winners plus the other (unsuccessful) nominees and the selection criteria for each category is available here.

WHAT IS THE POINT?

Admittedly, there are a lot of lists going around of best hotels, etc. Two things make the Indonesian Travel and Tourism Awards different:

The public (mostly Indonesian residents) can vote, so it's like an Indonesian "People's Choice Awards" for hotels, rather than a few tourists or guidebook authors choosing.

The motto/aim of the ITTA:

awarding the best, inspiring the rest

In real English, it means that it hopes that by giving awards and publicity to the best hotels, it will inspire other hotels to improve and try to win in the future. This is similar to the Sapta Pesona Clean Public Airport Toilet Award - first awarded in 2007 - which has increased standards of cleanliness and comfort enjoyed in airport toilets across the country.

YOUR VOTE

If you have stayed at one of the winning hotels, do you feel it is a worthy winner?

If you have not, what categories would you like to see that would reward other deserving hotels?

6 Comments on “People’s Choice: Best Indonesian Hotels 2011/2012”

Can’t say I’ve stayed in any of those places, neither well travelled nor well heeled enough I suppose.

I think they need — Hotels with Character award, difficult to pick the criteria there though, or family hotels, budget, could be lots more, shame they just focus on the luxury and chain hotels end of things, but that’s to be expected probably.

By law, all Indonesian businesses are by supposed to support the local community (at least in theory). This is particularly an issue when e.g. 5-star hotels are located next to shanty towns. Which hotel is giving opportunities and supporting their local community – and particularly the underprivileged – the best?

The Marriot in Jakarta is really rather nice, though security entering is a drag (for obvious reasons).

My worst hotel experience in Indonesia was in the Kusuma Sahid Prince Hotel in Solo… I mean, who puts roosters in cages near hotel rooms? Did it not occur to management that they might…just…wake people up at 5 in the morning?